Apple is offering iTunes movie customers steep discounts on bundled films, offering the chance to pick up popular series like "The Matrix" and "Back to the Future" at a rate of buy one, get two free.

Update: Some of the original prices (including the "Harry Potter" series for $10) appear to have been a mistake. Apple has since updated with the correct ? and still discounted ? costs.

For the time being, U.S.-based iTunes customers can get any of 25 movie series at a big discount. Bundles are available starting at $10, and some larger bundles offer each movie for as low as $5 a piece.

Note that when viewed in a Web browser on iTunes Preview, the prices do not reflect the current sale. The items must be viewed in the standalone iTunes application to see the promotion.

I wish they would give you a deal when you already own 1 or more of the movies in the bundle. Something similar to complete my album.

Agreed. Also, I have a lot of movies where I bought the digital copy because it was bundled with a DVD, but it's not HD or "Super HD" (whatever that is). They should let you upgrade your copy to a higher format for a small fee IMO.

Lots of times they only have the SD copy available even for new movies and even in digital only from the iTunes store (The recent, first Star Trek movie is a good example). You know they are at some point going to put an HD copy up there, but it's just wrong to make people buy it all over again at full price when they already own what was the only previously available digital copy.

iTunes music store is a great deal for almost anything, but the movie store is really awful in terms of giving the customer a fair deal. I rarely buy anything but the specials for that reason. The prices are just far too high most of the time.

I looked up the Back to the Future Bundle listed at $20 but in Canada $49.99

If the prices were close I'd be spending some money...

I think part of the confusion is that the author is quoting the non-HD prices for individual titles in the bundle instead of the bundle price.

I just looked up Lord of the Rings in the Canada store and the HD set is $45.00 which does seem to be a slight drop in price, but it's the SD set that's $30 (or "$10" as the author puts it). So $15 bucks each for the extended HD copies of the three movies is a pretty good deal, but it's not a "great" deal.

The Indiana Jones movies are similarly priced, ($50.00 for four HD movies) but only two of the four are worth watching so ...

Well, since the entire Harry Potter series (8 movies) is only $10, even if you own most of them, it's still a good deal.

Some of the others aren't as great a deal, though.

The only silly thing is that it apparently it doesn't recognize that you already own the movies. For instance, I had free digital copies of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows Part 1. I bought the bundle and now I have two copies of both movies on my Apple TV :/

Since I have most of the bundles on dvd I wish I could just bring in my DVDs to the Apple store and trade them for digital copies. I mean Walmart already lets you do something similar although you don't get an iTunes code.

Since I have most of the bundles on dvd I wish I could just bring in my DVDs to the Apple store and trade them for digital copies. I mean Walmart already lets you do something similar although you don't get an iTunes code.

you can do it with Vudu

download their application, put in DVD and for a few $$$ it will give you a digital copy in their store.

I just went to purchased HP bundle for $10, confirmed it, got an email saying my CC was charged $1 but the movie is no where to be found in my movie list. then i went back and did it again, and it said it was unable to purchase as it was being modified. look again and the price was $60. refreshed it a few minutes later and it was back to $10. tried to purchase again but keeps saying its being modified.... ARG